Passover Controversies

A collection of six critiques on the controversies surrounding Fred Coulter’s book: The Christian Passover which is now available on this site. I hope it addresses every topic of concern. Thanks for reading.

Now available with links

(1)  A Critique of Fred Coulter’s Passover (1-5)
(2)  A Critique of Fred Coulter’s Passover (6-9)
(3)  A Critique of Fred Coulter’s Passover (10-11)
(4)  A Critique of Fred Coulter’s Passover (12-15)
(5)  A Critique of Fred Coulter’s Passover (16-18)
(6)  A Critique of Fred Coulter’s Passover (19 &)

Here is what Edwards Norman says of Coulter’s book: The Christian Passover

“He took a certain approach to the complex issue of the Passover, and every time he ran into a scriptural obstacle, he wove an elaborate web to get around it—hence the large size of his book, The Christian Passover. Readers frequently accept his arguments, not because they are simply and clearly true, but because proving or disproving his vast amount of writing is an exhausting task that few have the time to complete. In other places, Mr. Coulter deliberately avoids quoting parts of scriptures or other sources that disagree with his teaching.

“Sometimes, as in the case of Deuteronomy 16, he simply claims that the scripture must be wrong because it does not fit his teaching. He cites no old manuscripts that have a different wording in the chapter—he just disagrees with what it says and claims that the Jews must have changed it.” (Edwards, Norman: Coulter’s The Christian Passover. Servants’ News. May/June 2002, pg 15). 

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And here’s is another observation

Tampering with the Bible and its translation

A parable was tolds of three men competing in archery. The first lands most of his shots on the bullseye, with only a few misses. The second mostly hits outside the bullseye but manages a few perfect shots.

The third strikes a nearby tree trunk, then rushed over with a red marker to draw a bullseye around his arrow, insisting his friends’ shots were far off target. In this translation analogy, he claims all other translations were completely way off the target.

In this forging and mistranslation analogy, Fred Coulter claims Ezra had edited the Scriptures, especially the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 16, and are therefore way off the mark.

When Fred Coulter attended the now-defunct Ambassador College, he was told that Passover fell on the early fourteenth, and to him, that was right on target. That was where his journey began, and from there he worked his way backward to the beginning, piecing together how it all came to be.

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Could this be connected to an intriguing mystery, the Ron Wyatt’s testimony: Christ’s blood dripping onto the Mercy Seat offered to the Father?